XMAS 2017 Series | Mamonde Flowers For Me Holiday Collection

We love flowers, period. Flowers speak to us in many ways and one of them would be to sooth our soul and calm our mind. It also inspires us visually during photography work for LUMINNEJ. This time of the year, Korean Beauty brand, Mamonde introduces their Christmas series with Flowers For Me Holiday Collection, one which is fun, feminine yet equally alluring and leaving you looking absolutely delicious and blooming with colourful freshness and surprises this Blooming Winter, Mamonde style. A huge thanks to Mamonde Malaysia for the love as we received this special Christmas surprise package some time back. We hope its still in time to share a little about the collection for you to perhaps not only pamper yourself during this special occasions but share some love with friends and family too when it comes to gifting ideas. So, let's dive in, shall we? 

XMAS 2017 Series | Dior Precious Rocks Rocking That Glittery Glam Look

Nothing beats a good line-up of amazing makeup collection specially tailor-made for the festive season. Christmas bells are ringing in and in no time, we are ending the year of 2017. Time flies when you have fun, no? Our little Christmas came super early all thanks to our beloved beauty brand, Dior and a huge hugs and kisses to Dior Malaysia for still loving us all these while even though we have been so bogged down by our full time work that blogging here took a backseat with delayed updates. How we wished we could just blog full time at times like these. 

Enough of ranting, we are extremely thrilled over the favourite time of the year. With Dior, it is all about the glitter and glam, Dior style all the way, aptly called Dior Precious Rocks Holiday 2017 Collection (here for more). We have put together something a little different this year for our Christmas series, hope you lovelies will enjoy nonetheless. We are going for the look book style instead of purely review piece. Precious Rocks, paying homage to unfettered rock spirit, confidently precious!

Opulent and glittery this season, the eyes sparkle with a kaleidoscope of myriad shades, in a prismatic way. The design is captivatingly hypnotic, the colours will embellish your eyes with wonderful shades. 5 Couleurs Precious Rocks Limited Edition in Ruby and Emerald, you take your pick, whichever that tickles your fancy. Both are equally alluring with a touch of iridescent for us. Here for more on the application techniques and shades. Add a little touch of colour onto the nails with this season's limited edition shades of Diorific Vernis, which comes in its signature bottle with a golden cap. 4 new shades to let your nails do the talking and shine bright with gel-like finishing. We love both colours that we have - Amethyst (deep prune) and Ruby (violet shade with a shimmery sort of shine finish). Discover more here.

This Christmas, we imagine the most sophisticated gold, yet in a more subdued kind of manner, accentuated slightly with a touch a golden shimmer to excite and tease the senses of the admirer of a Dior woman who shows up at a party. She glows in pretty shades of golden dust of the irresistible Christmas 2017 limited edition Diorific Precious Rocks Golden Glow Loose Powder, (here for more) that catches the most brightest light in a sensual way that gets one thrilled with pleasure, looking almost like a Greek goddess of the night. Finish off with an added golden glittery touch of nail art with Diorific Vernis Liner in golden shade and that few spritz of exclusively mixed of floral and spices Dior scent, the absolute J'adore L'Or (here for more on its notes and structure).

It is an epic story of intense expression of the floral notes in every sense, yet entices the deepest desire of a woman to appeal differently with its fruity accents mingled with spices. Voluptuous and rich in nuances, this quintessentially floral scent would cement the wearer with her own interpretation of charm and a woman's sophistication in its subtle sensibility. We absolutely adore and fell in love with its new chiseled necklace and bottle. Read here about our previous thoughts on the other Dior J'adore that had us crushing hard as well.

[Review] clé de peau BEAUTÉ 2016 Holiday Collection | Unabashed, Seductive, Dizzingly Free

Wearing clé de peau BEAUTÉ Radiant Cream Foundation & Radiant Liquid Rouge in 16 Bright Orange

Unabashed, totally comfortable in your own sensuality and be as bold as you can be, those were the feelings and qualities found in the roaring 1920s, a liberated new age for the post-war Europe, all being captured and effortlessly encapsulated in this year's clé de peau BEAUTÉ 2016 Holiday Collection, (here for more) with the theme called Les Années Folles. This exquisite looking collection, which we were introduced during the party here is a modern reflection of that bygone era of elegant tuxedos, colourful silk gowns accented with camellia corsages, sparkling jewelry, peacock headdresses and diamond tiaras. This is the result of clé de peau BEAUTÉ collaboration work with contemporary artist Ashley Longshore, where distinctive art decor inspired packaging are created. Painted with whimsical charm in bold strokes and colours, the carefree era and its bold and daring spirit came alive through this season's collectable pieces. We shall be sharing with you our experience with some of the beauty products from the range here.

A 2016 Merry Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

It is the most favourite time of the year again! Time flies when you are having fun in life, no? We have almost come to the end of the year 2016. So much that we would love to give thanks to, especially to those of you out there who have been dropping by to say hi, read all about our adventures here, through the year and also, the brands which have come to support us, which we are so grateful for.

We would love to take this joyous occasion to say a HUGE thanks! to each and everyone of you out there, who has made our blogging journey a luminously meaningful and fulfilling one. We could not have asked for more. 

Have a very MERRY MERRY Christmas, no matter where you are, lovelies, and a HAPPY HAPPY new year 2017 ahead! May all the good things come your way as you truly deserve them all *_^ 

Visuals via LUMI Pinterest here. Cup with XMAS tree | Golden Details on White Dress | Golden XMAS bokeh | Asian Girl Smiling | Merry Christmas Wish | Blue Snow Flake via Wallpapers HD App

With love, 

Jeann

XMAS 2016 Series | Dior 2016 Holiday Splendor Collection, Making A Golden Splash This Festive Season

First and foremost, there is a spoiler to this post, as much as we were super excited when we received this season's Dior 2016 Holiday Collection Splendor (here for more) quite some time back, but we didn't get around to photograph them proper yet, hence we never gotten around to try them all out until much later and by now, as we are penning this post, we discovered that some of the items within the collection has already sold out! Ouch, our apologies for not getting this one out much earlier. Nonetheless, in the spirit of Christmas coming right up real soon, we would still love to share just a quick one with you on our thoughts of this super lovely collection from our favourite beauty brand, Dior *_^

XMAS 2016 Series | Jo Malone London Theatre Of Christmas

One can almost trust that this British Cologne brand will line up an exquisite occasion, like one here, for you if you were to receive an invitation from Jo Malone London. The recent Merry Michief in celebration of the coming Christmas this year was no exception. If you had followed LUMINNEJ for quite some time, you would know that Jo Malone London cologne is one of our top favourite colognes to wear (here and here). It never fail to amaze us with its concept of layering the scents to create a signature one for yourself. 

Have An Exceptionally Thankful 2015 Christmas!

On this beautiful day of the season and the joyous time of the year, may we wish you a very Merry Merry Christmas and a Happy Happy New Year! We would love to take this opportunity to thank all the brands who have supported LUMINNEJ this year, the new found friends whom we have met or made along the way, you, yes you, out there who have been dropping by, reading, writing, sharing your thoughts and words of kind encouragement, most of all, your willingness to invest your precious TIME here with us, as we grow, another year. 

For without you, this journey would have been less colourful, less fun and most of all, less meaningful and a little lonely. We THANK YOU and we wish you the best of everything in your life, for the coming new year of 2016, from the very bottom of our heart. Enjoy this day with this song picked out especially for you, lovelies *_^

With love, 

Jeann